The past 18 months have necessitated a shift to working remotely, adjusting to more flexible hours, and mastering the Zoom mute button. As companies consider how best to approach the new normal in 2021, one idea that is making waves across the globe is the four-day working week. In our previous article, we looked at the pros and cons of the four-day week. If you’re considering a trial at your company, it’s important to be prepared beforehand to get the best out of the exercise.

Scoro, the award-winning work management software for collaborative teams, is ramping up its partner channel to meet increased global demand. Headquartered in the UK, with offices in North America and the Baltics, Scoro’s software helps thousands of agencies, consultancies and professional service firms in 60+ countries work more efficiently. Australia is one of those countries that has seen strong growth during the pandemic and the subsequent shift to hybrid working.

No matter how impressive your marketing plan may be or how incredible your deliverables are, a marketing campaign that isn’t keeping track of the right marketing metrics or KPIs will never be able to back up all of the good work it’s doing. Although it isn’t possible to monitor every metric, there are a few bankable ones that can be applied to all types of marketing campaigns.

No matter how impressive your marketing plan may be or how incredible your deliverables are, a marketing campaign that isn’t keeping track of the right marketing metrics or KPIs will never be able to back up all of the good work it’s doing. Although it isn’t possible to monitor every metric, there are a few bankable ones that can be applied to all types of marketing campaigns.

Many organizations have tried the four-day working week, including Microsoft Japan, the Utah State Government, and a number of small UK companies. And all of them report many benefits. But so far, the only one to switch permanently is Perpetual Guardian – a New Zealand financial services firm that trialed the practice in 2018 before transitioning all 240 staff. Now the four-day working week is becoming a hot topic, with the governments of Spain and Scotland recently announcing major trials.

As an award-winning, end-to-end work management software for marketing agencies, Scoro is a powerful tool in its own right. It enables you to manage every aspect of your agency in an all-in-one digital workspace – but the benefits don’t stop there. Scoro can also integrate with your business’s existing marketing tools so you can run everything in one place.

Most senior managers are not project managers, which means there’s often a disconnect between how operations and projects are run. Despite this, the management style of your C-suite executives will still have a major impact on the performance of a project. Some senior executives want to know every detail of their projects – the dreaded and debilitating micromanagement that can be incredibly frustrating for project managers.

Carefully mapping out project-related work, and later, managing, adjusting, and reorganizing it when needed, plays a significant role in delivering a great service, on time. This is exactly the reason we keep making improvements to our work and time management features, starring in a supporting role in our users’ success. Here’s what we’ve done.

Since its release nearly two decades ago, Jira has always been a firm favourite among software companies. Developed by Atlassian, the agile project management tool is currently used by over 70,000 teams worldwide. It has definitely made its mark and helped shape the entire development sector over the years. However, in recent times Jira has become increasingly unpopular with the teams who were once all too happy to sing its praises from the rooftops.

Regardless of its size, if your business is doing well, you’re operating at full capacity more often than not. This means that your staff’s time will be at a premium. While you can always hire more employees if need be, you should also be aware that there are many different ways to maximize productivity. One surprising way to achieve this is by exploring the possibilities of marketing automation.